The Arizona champion., 1887-02-26
FROZEN TO DEATH.
| Mother and Two Children Perish in the
 Snow in Apache County.

Seven miles southeast of the village of Cariso, in Apache county, is the ranch and home of James Cart, where until recently, he, his wife and two children have resided. With them lived Tom Boyd, man formerly a resident of Flagstaff and we'll known here. For short time past MT. Cart has been away from home looking alter his sheep which are On a range about 40 miles south of Winslow, conse- quently Mrs. Cart, the two children and Tom Boyd have been the only occupants of the residence.
 On Friday last Mrs. Cart amour. ced her intention of driving over to Cariso to see lady friend whom she had been in the habit of frequently visiting. A team of horses was hitch. ed to the blackboard and Mrs. Cart started, taking with her the two chil. dren, a girl aged five and boy aged two, telling Boyd as she left, that they would return about four o'clock that evening,
 During the afternoon snow storm came on and when i, began to grow dark and the lady and children had not returned, Boyd was not much alarmed because he knew that Mrs. Carts friend had frequently wanted her to stay over night when she had made previous visits, and he thought as a storm had come up she would probably do so on that occasion.
 On the next morning Saturday., Boyd began to feel uneasy and started off for Cariso. On reaching the house of Mrs. Carts friend at that place, he found to his consternation that the lady and the two children had Jeff Cariso between three and four o'clock on Friday afternoon in the blackboard, to return home.
 A search party was immediatelyor- ganized and started out. ca account of the recent trouble with the N.vajo Indians, when three white men were killed, it was at first surmlsed that the party had fallen into the hands of the Navajoes and great excitement ensued, the whole of tho people of the neigh borhood being up in arms. The first discovery of the search party was the empty blackboard, without the horses or occupants, standing about midway between Cariso and Mir Cart. ranch, |, but away from the road. From this point horse tracks could be seen from which it was inferred that Mrs. Cart had abandoned the blackboard in the storm and with her children madc the attempt to reach her home on horseback. The tracks were tr,ced all day Saturday away to a mesa ten miles east of the ranch a,.d on Sln- day morning the dead bodies of Mrs. Cart and the two children were found lying under 2 protecting rock near the rim or summit of the m. sa.
 From the time the unfortunate lady and her two children lett Cariso no human beings saw them. and what happened can only be inferred from the evidences of their wardcrings found by the search party. The sup position is that Mrs. Cart, on discov- ering that they were lost in the snow storm, and net being able 10 find the road or the direction in which her home lay, got out of the blackboard, unhitched the horses, let one of them loose and got upon the back of the other with her two children, thinking that the instinct of the horse would guide him to the ranch, and if the horse she was riding fsilcd to do so, the loose animal mi sht r:ach the place and so give the alarm that thsy were lost. Strange as it my seem the trail of the horse that carried the unfortu. nale woman and her children passed within four hundred yards of their home, within hearing of the place they were seeking, and went ol east ward through the binding snow and bitter cold of the winter night, ever, step taking them fArther awly from shelter and safety.
 There is no evidence as to the tim, the party reached the foot of the mes: which is very abrupt and the summi very difficult of access, but the i fer ence is that Mrs. Cart touad her wa, up hoping to sec her residence iron the elevation, as the ranch Is plainl. visible from this point when tn weather is clear. The trail of th